Autodesk Revit Building 9 Course

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AutodeskÂ® RevitÂ® Building 9 is a building design and documentation system that works the way Architects and Designers think. With Revit Building, Architects and Designers can get back to what they love, designing buildings, without their software getting in the way. Users can work in any view that makes sense, quickly and easily making changes to major design elements as they go. Easy visualization with on-the-fly 3D views and instant shadows means less waiting. You can even make late-stage changes without worrying about coordinating your plans, schedules, and construction documents. This intuitive course is a collection of step-by-step "follow-along" lessons that will teach all users how to use RevitÂ® Building. Work Files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on the AutodeskÂ® RevitÂ® Building 9 movie links.

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Hi! And welcome. This is VTC's training course on Autodesk Revit Building. My nameis Temesgen Hussein. Revit building is a fully three-dimensional buildingmodeler that functions very well at all phases of the design process, fromconcept sketches all the way through construction documentation. This coursewill prepare you for the process of implementing this new tool into the currentwork flow that's out there. Successful implementation will require planning,training and a transition phase from current computer-aided design applicationslike AutoCAD, the world-wide standard. CAD and Revit Building, what are thedifferences? CAD stands for computer-aided design or drafting. Computers havebeen used as an aid to a very old design process that hasn't changed much, evenas the tools became electronic. CAD software still requires you to design lineby line for the most part, and lines representing a wall in a plan do not createor appear in elevation, section or 3-D views of that wall. Revit Building, on theother hand, is directed towards architectural designers. It is not based on thedrafting language of lines, arcs and circles. Revit Building is a buildingmodeler database, with drafting tools included for those inevitable cases wheresimple line work is the most efficient way to illustrate a design concept ordetail. Revit Building differs fundamentally from CAD. All possible views of themodel update with each command, including sheets and schedules. Much of thecurrent design process routine, especially propagating changes throughout a setof construction document pages disappears as a result. Here's an example of theeffectiveness of Revit Building. The Freedom Tower project for New York City wasdeveloped in Revit Building. On May one, 2005, very late in the design process,the New York City police department announced that it was dissatisfied with thesecurity measure in the site and building design and put the whole project on hold.Then on June eight, 2005, only five weeks later, the police department announcedit's satisfaction with the design changes put in place by the architect. Imaginea project of that size, scope and public scrutiny. Present design software toolswould not allow you to respond to a major last-minute challenge as quickly andas well. Revit Building is powerful. What does parametric design mean? RevitBuilding objects are placed in relation to all other objects in a model andparameters control the relationships. Designers can now establish relationshipsamong building components that will hold through design revisions. Suppose thatan array of windows in a wall works best if the windows are equi-distant fromone another. The end windows are six feet from the corners and the sills are twofeet from the floor. Revit Building will recognize and apply those constraintsand adjust the positions of the windows if the wall length or floor height changes.The potential use of constraints flows throughout a model. Revit Building's use ofparameters underlies every aspect of the user interface. There is nodrafting-oriented organization, such as layers, to control appearance of objects.Much of the learning curve for CAD applications, therefore, does not pertain to newRevit Building users. Who would benefit from this course? If you currently workin architectural design, this course will explain the basics of the RevitBuilding tools that you will be using every day. An important part ofimplementing Revit Building in an active design company's work flow is blendingthis powerful new tool with the often vast store of valuable information inexisting drawing files. So, parts of this course deal with importing AutoCADinformation into Revit Building and exporting DWG files from Revit Building sothat the new technology can be transparent to the design team. If you are astudent of architectural design, this course will show you the very latestsoftware tool in the marketplace. You'll be among the first to design buildingsparametrically, entirely in three dimensions, without having to learn themechanics of representation of lines, arcs and circles beforehand. I have beenteaching Revit Building online for a long time and I'm sure you will benefitfrom this course.